ANSWER: In both Eastern and Western Samoa research has been attempted at finding traditional Polynesian rituals and spiritual beliefs relating to Gods and an afterlife. The studies show that in Samoa (sacred islands) the Gods are the Samoans themselves and their spirituality and belief system was linked to its original entitlement system and an ancestral adoration.
"This isn't saying that Samoans consider themselves as living deities and move around the world with ridiculous images of themselves in mind, no. It's just that Samoa is very very old, and has a very extensive reach in the Pacific Ocean and being the origin of many, founders tend to be seen as ancient ones or ancestors. In Samoa, there are actual titles which have been over King and even over High-King and become Celestial in status or Holy with some of the names in Polynesian mythology having actual Samoan title backgrounds like Tagaloa or Taga-lagi or Tangaloa"
Samoan-Maori and Eastern Polynesian Tatau - a work of Polynesian Fine body-art that includes all the cultures of Polynesia's regions - Artist in Aotearoa NZ
Anthropologist "The Samoans have always been an incredible interest to the scholar community being that they're credited to founding the Polynesian Triangle from Central Polynesia to Eastern Polynesia, then onto Northern and Southern regions. There's also an interest in genetic studies because the Polynesian gene pool is found throughout Southeast Asia which is genetically connected to East Asia and Central Asia. There is even a well known Polynesian Genetic Motif B4a1a1 by which geneticists have become fascinated by over the years using it as the Austronesian Marker of Oceania"
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